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They just seem to flower ridiculously early here to the extent that I went to check whether the plants had appeared above ground in April last year and found some in full flower!

Mike.

Just a note for anyone who does visit this Hampshire site, have a look for the C.longifola X C. damasonium hybrids there. Although I havenít been for a couple of years now they were usually there. Go left (west) of the photo site, check for Fly by the path then down near the roadside & right this is the area to see them.

If any of you visit the Man orchids in Warwickshire this year to photograph them can you please take a hammer if possible along with you to hammer back in the canes and pegs of the cages. I just want to make sure the rabbits don't get any developing seedheads later on. There are at the moment developing terminal shoots on some of the rosettes and there should be some flowering spikes. I just hope we don't get a late frost that can damage the developing flowering spikes.
Many thanks.

Good numbers of Dorset Early Spiders looking good on 22nd April - not looking so good a few days later after heavy rain and gale force winds but I expect they will have picked up if they have had some sun and drier conditions since.

Hi everyone, that time of year again!
We were planning a visit to Cumbria for the local specialities on 14/5 but the warden tells us it's a late year and we'll need to go at the end of May. That leaves us with a blank day - does anyone know whether the various Marsh Orchids are showing at Newborough, Cors Goch etc,

looking at the pictures that Heakl took in Kent yesterday compared with the ones I took in Oxfordshire on the same day of Lady orchids - what a range of colouration - mine is almost the colour of a military - I have seen them looking a bit redder here -re - burnt orchid colour in the past -it was very dull and it was raining but I think they were still quite bluey

Hi everyone, that time of year again!
We were planning a visit to Cumbria for the local specialities on 14/5 but the warden tells us it's a late year and we'll need to go at the end of May. That leaves us with a blank day - does anyone know whether the various Marsh Orchids are showing at Newborough, Cors Goch etc,

Jeff

Hi Jeff - I think mid May may be a tad early for Anglesey - but hopefully someone more local can help - I have visited usually in early June but this is a late year